We start with Toliver on the bump and Cruz on top of the
list. Both
of those facts change here as Wilkerson takes over the number one spot
with a very clean pass. Toliver backs it down a little to get down the
track and into the top half of the show. The bump is now Etchells at
6.368 seconds.
Left Lane: Frank Pedregon Runs 5.387/269.17 Now # 9,
(Best prior run: 5.316/220.13 Was # 9)
Right Lane: Del Worsham Runs 11.184/ 84.43 Now #13, (Best
prior run: 5.496/179.35 Was #13)

Worsham makes a hard right as the light turns green, so he
clicks it
off. Apparently he got some fluid underneath the left slick. Pedregon
with the soft setup gets down the left lane with no problems, but does not
help himself.
Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 5.918/238.53 Now #16, (Best
prior run: 7.185/114.60 Was #17)
Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.867/302.72 Now # 1, (Best
prior run: 4.947/284.62 Was # 2)

Capps is not in the show. Capps launches hard, makes a move
toward the wall and then starts to overpower the track. He has the car
completely side ways as he whips it back into his lane. He pedals it
once but is back up in smoke, and smokes it all the way through the
quarter mile. Cruz spins the tires around 1000 feet and then drops a
couple cylinders, but still lays down the quick time of the weekend.
Left Lane: Tom Hoover Runs 5.159/279.85 Now # 7, (Best
prior run: 16.545/ 62.80 Was #23)
Right Lane: John Force Runs 5.007/305.81 Now # 4, (Best
prior run: 5.017/306.85 Was # 4)

Hoover in his last race goes into the top half of the show
with a really nice pass. Force picks up a little, but not enough to move any
positions. Capps just got bumped out and Segrini is now on the bump with
a 5.759.
Left Lane: Chuck Etchells Runs 5.025/301.70 Now # 6,
(Best prior run: 6.368/157.04 Was #18)
Right Lane: Gary Densham Runs 5.198/270.92 Now # 9, (Best
prior run: 9.695/ 88.25 Was #21)

A couple more get this tricky track figured out and make the
show and bump out Higley and Segrini. Etchells run was nice and clean, while
Densham had a big puff of smoke just past half track, but stays with it.
Left Lane: Whit Bazemore Runs 4.962/307.37 Now # 3, (Best
prior run: 5.469/270.69 Was #14)
Right Lane: Jim Epler Runs 5.403/284.99 Now #15, (Best
prior run: 9.953/ 90.33 Was #22)

Bazemore still looking for that corporate sponsor shows he
can play with the big boys with a very good pass. Epler is off and on the
throttle at least two times, but sneaks into the show.
Left Lane: Randy Anderson Runs 5.056/304.98 Now # 8,
(Best prior run: 5.345/266.27 Was #14)
Right Lane: Wyatt Radke Runs 6.268/148.76 Now #21, (Best
prior run: 16.867/ 68.39 Was #24)

Anderson breaks into the the top half of the show with Big
Jim Dunn
tune up. The news around the press tower is Jim Dunn will be back next
year with his own car and and interesting sponsor Penthouse magazine.
Radke makes a move toward the centerline and when he drives back into the
center of his lane he loses traction. He smokes the Goodyears through the
end of the quarter-mile.
Left Lane: Tony Pedregon Runs 17.495/ 58.24 Now # 6, (Best
prior run: 5.017/248.55 Was # 6)
Right Lane: Norman Wilding Runs 5.769/245.49 Now #20, (No
prior time)

Pedregon is up in smoke right off the starting line.
Wilding heads
toward the wall and yanks on the brake to pull it back into the center of
his lane. The engine then goes away around 1000 feet, but he stays with
it.
Left Lane: Al Segrini No Time Now #20, (Best
prior run: 5.759/232.61 Was #19)
Right Lane: Dean Skuza Runs 5.262/280.46 Now #12, (Best
prior run: 8.317/101.30 Was #23)

Skuza is not in the show, yet. He changes it that right
here, bumping out Haddock. Segrini is real loose and then close to the
centerline and then crosses it and follows Skuza past the finish line.
Left Lane: Bob Weickgenannt Runs 6.502/180.28 Now #24,
(Best prior run: 15.007/ 76.79 Was #25)
Right Lane: Al Hofmann Runs 9.533/ 82.26 Now # 4, (Best
prior run: 4.976/307.58 Was # 4)

Weickgenannt launches and then is completely off the
throttle and then back on it. Hofmann loses traction and clicks it off.
Left Lane: Dale Pulde Runs 5.255/290.04 Now #12, (Best
prior run: 9.497/ 99.51 Was #25)
Right Lane: Ray Higley Runs 5.582/240.89 Now #20, (Best
prior run: 5.624/195.05 Was #19)

Pulde gets down the track for the first time this weekend
and bumps
out Epler. That is it for Funny Car and Cruz solidifies his number one
position and after a lot of shuffling Frank Pedregon is in the number 16
spot.